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Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel and John Torrey correspondence, 1820

by: Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833

Publication date: 1820

Topics: Botanical specimens, Fungi, Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833 -- Correspondence, Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence, Beck, Lewis C. (Lewis Caleb), 1798-1853, Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879, Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867, Hosack, David, 1769-1835, Ives, Ansel W. (Ansel Wilmot), 1787-1838, Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860, Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859, Schaeffer, F. C. (Frederick C.), Rev., active 1817, Willdenow, Karl Ludwig, 1765-1812

Collection: nybgtorrey; biodiversity; NY_Botanical_Garden

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

Item Size: 13.0M

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Correspondence from Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel to John Torrey, dated 1820, thanking Torrey for his efforts in gathering plants and obtaining correspondents for him, and enumerating the large package he is sending by way of thanks. Obsolete and unresolved plant names mentioned include Blandowia, Dynamea operculata, Polypodium pilosum, and Polypodium tetragonum

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online

Abstract: Correspondence from Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel to John Torrey, dated 1820, thanking Torrey for his efforts in gathering plants and obtaining correspondents for him, and enumerating the large package he is sending by way of thanks. Obsolete and unresolved plant names mentioned include Blandowia, Dynamea operculata, Polypodium pilosum, and Polypodium tetragonum.